Evangelical Christian voters turned out in record numbers according to a national post-election survey done by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. However, despite a 78 to 21 percent split in favor of Mitt Romney among white evangelicals, the coalition's leader implied that Barack Obama's win was catapulted by votes from youths and minorities.

"Evangelicals turned out in record numbers and voted as heavily for Mitt Romney yesterday as they did for George W. Bush in 2004," said Ralph Reed, chairman of Faith and Freedom Coalition. "That is an astonishing outcome that few would have predicted even a few months ago. But Romney underperformed with younger voters and minorities and that in the end made the difference for Obama."

All we kept hearing throughout the campaign was that youth were not going to turn out for Obama because they had become so disillusioned with him. Yeah, right-—another one of Rove’s brilliant voter turnout assumptions.

I picked up NO discernable passion for Obama anwhere out there. Hardly any yard signs even. Obviously in hindsight a deliberate tactic to stay under the radar.

Evidently they have their own closed communication pipeline into minorities and yutes using Twitter or somesuch. I became suspicious when my daughter kept coming home from college asking me “did you hear Obama is going to forgive all our student loans?” Evidently they had a way to circulate that rumor on college campi away from my daily travels.

If he managed to get all their votes anyway without giving them that, either they are dumber or he’s an even bigger charlatan than I suspected.

It doesn't boil down to just numbers IMHO. The kind of numbers is what astonishes me. That there are so many , the majority it seems, who are willing to set a match to everything this country stands for, for some short-termed benefit.

You and others do make a good point though about the turnout. The warnings of many, me included, that the GOP Establishment would ruin this election by sending out another moderate-liberal to fight turned out to be true. And maybe the lower turnout is because some folks will never vote for a liberal or a Mormon or a liberal Mormon...

How do we know that the votes of the evangelicals that say they turned out in record numbers were not changed to the votes of the few young people and abortion-supporters who showed up? The polling before-hand showed an enthusiasm gap that supports the evangelicals’ claim. The polls that expected an Obama win were based on an even bigger democrat-advantage enthusiasm gap than Obama got in ‘08, even though the polls said the youth were disillusioned and unenthusiastic. So now the results come in and they contradict what the pollsters had heard before the election and what the evangelicals are claiming about turnout now.

Somebody is lying. Who is more likely to lie - the communist-Islamist media cabal and current administration (considering that both communists and Islamists openly admit that lying is their strategy because the end justifies the means), or the evangelicals who, if they stayed home in protest of the candidate, would actually BOAST of having cost Romney the election, so that the R establishment would hear the very message they were trying to send?

Though his dad is quite Conservative, this kid is incredibly ambivalent on just about any issue of substance. Though he graduated two years ago, he lives with his sister as a live-in babysitter and has only a part-time job.

Despite this circumstance, he wasted his vote on Gary Johnson. And the biggest news to come out of the election in his view was the two states who approved recreational pot use.

If you're going to focus on what religion or denomination people are and how that influences their vote, then it's inaccurate to not include black Evangelicals in the total of Evangelicals. I see a lot of numbers that have Evangelicals listed and Blacks listed separately, but doing that doesn't actually prove a thing about how my Evangelicals rely on their faith when they vote.

Does anyone have numbers that include ALL the people who claim to be Evangelicals rather than numbers that do not include Black and Hispanic Evangelicals?

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posted on 11/08/2012 9:35:41 AM PST
by Rashputin
(Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory.)

In total Obama received more support from religious groups than did Romney, but there are some rather surprising totals in the individual listings. First of all, you have the Catholic vote. As we all know there was a huge issue this year when the Supreme Court ruled on ObamaCare because of the mandate that violated the religious freedom of the Catholic Church. It is against the Catholic teaching to use contraceptives or have an abortion, and within this bill is a mandate forcing Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives and abortificient drugs, within their insurance, to their employees. This was a huge deal, AND YET 50% of the Catholic vote went to him?

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posted on 11/08/2012 10:14:06 AM PST
by Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)

Evangelical Christian voters turned out in record numbers according to a national post-election survey done by the Faith and Freedom Coalition....a 78 to 21 percent split in favor of Mitt Romney among white evangelicals....

More insidious than pot(which is bad enough) what has damaged the work ethic of this generation is the VIDEO GAME!

IF my nephew and his friends are any indication, more kids spend more time wasting away playing video games instead of studying.

Back in the Fifties Sen.Estes Kehoeffer(sp?) held senate hearings on the "terrible" effects of comic books on children. His head would explode if he knew about the time kids and yes, adults waste on these fun but ultimately useless time-killers.(No, I'm not against video games just their overuse)

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posted on 11/08/2012 3:14:38 PM PST
by RedMonqey
(America: It was a good run. Last conservative, Please turn off the lights...)

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